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The Social Archaeology of the Levant
  • From Prehistory to the Present
  • Edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, Yorke Rowan
  • Published online:
    14 December 2018
    Print publication:
    20 December 2018
  • The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and bioanthropology, the volume presents central debates around a range of archaeological issues, including gender, ritual, the creation of alphabets and early writing, biblical periods, archaeometallurgy, looting, and maritime trade. Collectively, the essays also engage diverse theoretical approaches to demonstrate the multi-vocal nature of studying the past. Significantly, The Social Archaeology of the Levant updates and contextualizes major shifts in archaeological interpretation.

  • New Radiocarbon Dates from Tel Kabri Support a High Middle Bronze Age Chronology

  • Felix Höflmayer, Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H Cline, Michael W Dee, Brita Lorentzen, Simone Riehl
  • Journal:
    Radiocarbon / Volume 58 / Issue 3 / September 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 April 2016, pp. 599-613
    Print publication:
    September 2016

  • This article presents new radiocarbon evidence from the Middle Bronze Age palatial site of Tel Kabri (Israel). The final phase of the palace (Phase III) can be dated to Middle Bronze Age II, with an end date around the transition from Middle Bronze II to III or very early in Middle Bronze III. According to our 14C data, the end of Tel Kabri Phase III (and thus the transition from Middle Bronze II to III) can be dated to ~1700 BC. This date is about 50–100 yr earlier than traditional chronological models for the Middle Bronze Age propose (~1650 BC according to the traditional chronology or ~1600 BC according to the low chronology). 14C data from Tel Kabri thus add additional evidence for a higher Middle Bronze Age chronology for the Levant, consistent with recent 14C evidence from Tell el-Dabca (Egypt), Tel Ifshar (Israel), and Tell el-Burak (Lebanon).

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